Applications are invited for one full-time PhD studentship (with
scholarship) for a period of 3 years, starting Nov 2014, at “The
Physical Structure of Perception and Computation” lab of the Department
of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and System Engineering
(DIBRIS), University of Genoa, Italy.
The proposed PhD research project will be focused on “Learning
compositional visual representation of 3D shapes in vergent geometry”.
The goal is to derive a deep architecture for abstracting the
statistically relevant information present in the disparity patterns
obtained by binocular fixations. Starting from a neuromorphic early
representation of 2D binocular disparity, the resulting 3D visual
descriptors should be characterized by generalized perceptual constancy.
The project will provide the opportunity to work on neural modeling,
visual psychophysics, computer vision, or a combination of them.
Experimental, modeling, and theoretical approaches might be pursued with
a different accent according to personal attitude.
Ongoing cooperation, at international level, with research groups of
different disciplines, will ensure a highly interdisciplinary and
stimulating environment.
Successful applicants will have at their disposal state-of-the-art sw
and hw, 3D VR-AR experimental set-ups, a high precision 3D laser
scanner, a large-scale CPU/GPU-based neuromorphic architecture for joint
stereo and motion cortical representation, and an iCub 6dof binocular
robot head.
Successful applicants would have a good honors degree in bioengineering,
computer science, physics or related disciplines, strong interest in
computational neuroscience, and an open mind for interdisciplinary research.
On-line application will be soon opening (deadline: August 30th, 2014 at
12:00 noon (Italian time/CET))
Prospective students, please contact: Silvio Sabatini
(silvio.sabatini at unige.it).
DIBRIS is a unique inter-school department of the University of Genoa,
bridging together researchers from the former Science and Engineering
Faculties. It offers an excellent multidisciplinary, interactive and
collaborative research environment combining expertise in computer
vision, computational neuroscience, neuromorphic computing, robotics and
mechatronics.
PSPC-Lab (www.pspc.unige.it), has a long-standing expertise in visual
coding and multidimensional signal representation, robot perception and
computer vision. In the last five years, the lab’s research activity
focused on the analysis of the structural mechanisms of visuo-spatial
cognition, responsible for orienting and interacting in the 3D space.
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Silvio P. SABATINI, PhD [PSPC Research Group]
Professor of Bioengineering
DIBRIS - University of Genova | e_mail:silvio.sabatini at unige.it
Via Opera Pia, 11A | phone: +39 010 3532092/3532794
I-16145 Genova (ITALY) | fax: +39 010 3532289/3536533
URL:http://pspc.unige.it
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